Sales-book.



A. F. STAPLES. SALES BOOK.

APPLIGATION FILED OUT. 28, 1907.

Witwesses [m/emor v PATENTED APR. 14, 1908.

ALBERT r. STAPLES, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO.

SALES-BOOK.

"Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed October 28, 1907. Serial N 0. 399,509.

.To all whom 'it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT F. STAPLES, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful 'Improvements in Sales-Books, of which the amounts of the several bills are entered, so

that a summary of the transactions entered on the bills may be ke t, and the-book and the score sheet are usua 1y carried in a holder or cover for the convenience of the user and to protect them against injury when carried in the ocket. An example of such a holder is disc osed in the inventors prior'patent, No. 835,041, dated NovQfi, 1906.

The sales-book, as usually constructed, comprises a body of leaves secured to a cardboard back which serves usually as a means for securing the book in the holder. The score sheet is furnished separately, it being necessary to provide a sheet for each book. The pages of the book are numbered consecutively, in pairs to permit duplicating, and the score sheet is printed with spaces numbered consecutively to correspond to the numbers on the bills.

The object of the present invention is to obviate the expense and inconvenience of providing a separate score sheet, and to this s end it is proposed to utilize the cardboard back of thepad as a score sheet by making it removable by perforating it or otherwise and by printing it with suitable lines and with serial numbers corresponding to those on the leaves. While the book of which the score sheet forms the back is in use the score sheet serves merely the purpose of the ordinary I cardboard back, but when the leaves have been used the back is detached and is used as a score sheet in connection with the next book, so that each book provides a score sheet for the next.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective'view of a sales-book embodying the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. 7

The illustrated embodiment of the invention comprises a body 1 of leaves and a back 2 of cardboard. The leaves are printed, as shown in Fig. 1, in the form of bills, and are provided with serial numbers The back 2 is printed with spaces equal in number to the number of bills, and these spaces are numbered serially asat 4 in Fig. 2, one-half of the spaces and numbers being on each side. A row of perforations or indentations 5 provides for removing the score sheet when the book has been entirely used, and the sheet, when so removed, may be inserted in the cover of the holder in the ordinary manher and used with a new pad carried by the pad holder.

The invention may be embodied in various other forms within the terms and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.

1. A sales book comprising a body-of leaves printed for use as charge slips, and a back of sheet material secured to the leaves at one edge and having a weakened portion near such edge to facilitate its removal, the back being printed for use as a score sheet, so that when removed it may be used in connection with another similar sales book.

2. A sales book comprising a body of leaves printed for use as charge slips and consecutively numbered, and a cardboard back secured to the leaves at one edge and perforated near such edge to facilitate its removal, the back being printed with spaces numbered to correspond with the numbers on the leaves, so that the back, when removed, may be used as a score sheet in connection with an other similar sales book.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

N. Q. GRAY, D. M. QUINN. 

